Cheap TatOneEyedMonster remindes us about the crap you can buy in pound shops: "Batteries that lasted about an hour and then died. A screwdriver with a loose handle so I couldn't turn the damn screw, and a tape measure which wasn't at all accurate."
Similarly, my neighbour bought a lawnmower from Argos that was so cheap the wheels didn't go round, it sort of skidded over the grass whilst gently back-combing it.
What's the cheapest, most useless crap you've bought?
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chthonic, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 7:26)
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@GreencloudPartworns aren't a problem (as long as they've not been kerbed etc). There are lots around, not just imports: f'rexample when I was a hardworking employee of Mercedes we used to change tyres on used cars at a certain tread depth (3mm ish) that would give you a few months use depending on mileage before they got close to the 1.6mm limit. When you're talking Pirelli P-Zeros and the like that's some seriously expensive rubber - our 'scrap' tyres were collected by a dealer so someone was making a profit somewhere...
I'd rather have a partworn set of decent tyres than remoulds or 'super budget' any day.
Rule remains the same, find a good local tyre place, rather than a 'household name'.
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